UCLA Taser incident

The UCLA Taser incident occurred on November 14, 2006, when Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a fourth-year University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) student, was drive stunned multiple times with a Taser by campus police, for allegedly refusing to be escorted out of the College Library Instructional Computing Commons (CLICC) lab at Powell Library. The police had been called after Tabatabainejad had refused to provide his BruinCard (student ID) to a UCLA Community Service Officer during a routine check. Part of the incident was recorded on video by a camera phone.

Related pages
University of Florida Taser incident
UC Davis pepper spray incident

Other websites
Daily Bruin TV: Students march at UCLA to protest actions taken by police against student 
KNX Newsradio audio of the Nov. 17th Abrams press conference and an eyewitness account of the taser incident. 

YouTube video of the incident caught on a cameraphone
 Excessive and lethal force? Amnesty International's concerns about deaths and ill-treatment involving police use of tasers 

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